Guarantee Clause

Federal court dismisses anti-TABOR lawsuit 0
- December 24, 2021
The court should have dismissed this lawsuit immediately . . . .[But] we at Colorado’s Independence Institute took it very seriously. We anticipated that unscrupulous liberal jurists might seize on it as a way to destroy TABOR.
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Immigration: How Biden Is violating the Constitution 0
- October 21, 2021
The current situation at the southern border . . . is an “invasion” as the Constitution uses the term. Biden’s failure to stop it is a violation of the Guarantee Clause.
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Defending the Constitution: Secrets behind those ‘obscure’ provisions 0
- July 13, 2021
Here are questions and answers addressing five of the Constitution’s less famous provisions.
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The Feds have a constitutional duty to stop the caravan at the border 0
- November 19, 2018
[T]he caravan is an “invasion” within the meaning of the Constitution’s Guarantee Clause. Moreover, that Clause does not merely empower federal officials to repel an “Invasion.” It commands them to do so.
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Colorado Goes to the Supreme Court to Defend TABOR 0
- October 24, 2014
Three years ago, a group of primarily government plaintiffs sued in federal district court to void Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR). TABOR allows the people, not just the legislature, to vote on most tax increases, most debt increases, and some spending hikes. The plaintiffs argued that the 20-year old state constitutional provision violated the
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The Court of Appeals' Anti-TABOR Decision 0
- March 17, 2014
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit recently refused to dismiss the suit by various public sector interests to invalidate Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR). The plaintiffs claim that TABOR violates Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution. That provision is called the Guarantee Clause because it guarantees that the
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